Shooting At A Connecticut Elementary School. 26 Dead Including 18 Children

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Maybe in Florida, but not Michigan.
If the property owner (business or personal) has a no guns policy and you are carrying (concealed or not) and the owner knows it, you can be asked to leave. If you do not leave, you can be charged with criminal trespass.
Texas has a similar policy as it applies to businesses, but specific signage is required.

I just rechecked the law, and yes private property can still restrict CCW, and they made it so State Universities could as well. Everywhere else though, doesn't matter how many "Gun Free Zones" signs you post. The extended CPL will give you freedom to be armed. As far as I'm aware Snyder is still sitting on the bill. They passed it the same day the shooting happened, so I'm sure he doesn't want to create another firestorm so soon after the RTW issue.

In most sports, cold-cocking an opposing player repeatedly in the face with a series of gigantic Slovakian uppercuts would get you a multi-game suspension without pay.

In hockey, it means you have to sit in the penalty box for five minutes.

I don't recall these mass shootings in the 70's and 80's growing up. I lived close to Bronx State Psychiatric Center. They institutionalized the criminally insane. Now, they go to jail, do some easy time and are let back out due to over-crowding. This country has turned it's back on the mentally ill. This is why we are seeing a rise in these types of events. Even Bellevue in NYC has turned in a regular medical center with the exception of a few wards. The mentally ill who are lucky enough to be diagnosed are being treated with drugs with no way to monitor compliance. Do we re-open shuttered mental institutions? I don't know if that is the answer...but what else is there?

Maybe in Florida, but not Michigan.
If the property owner (business or personal) has a no guns policy and you are carrying (concealed or not) and the owner knows it, you can be asked to leave. If you do not leave, you can be charged with criminal trespass.
Texas has a similar policy as it applies to businesses, but specific signage is required.

Why shouldn't a school teacher have a semi-automatic weapon (as opposed to the misnamed Assault Weapon) any more than you or I or any other member of this board?
I have 2 Ruger Mini-14's which fire the same size and quantity of rounds as the scary looking Bushmaster and a Yugo 59/66 really scary looking semi-auto with a attached bayonet and (gasp) grenade launcher. The Yugo only has a 10 round capacity, less than my S&W 6906 9mm.

If you have a teacher who has a CC permit, then allow them to carry, but don't make it a policy to try to arm teachers as a group. Given what we have seen in terms of the political and ideological leanings of most teachers, they'd be the last people that you'd want to arm. You might as well try to put the entire membership of DU through boot camp. The first time that a teacher misuses or misplaces a weapon, there'd be all manner of outcry against the policy, especially if the weapon got into the hands of a student. Unfortunately, in a time when most teachers are barely competent in the subjects that they teach, it's too much to ask that we add a demanding skill to their requirements.

The problem with these incidents is that the school is a target-rich environment for a shooter, who knows that the vast majority of people within it will be helpless in the face of an armed intruder. What's not widely known is that most military installations are the same way, which is why Nidal Hasan was able to kill so many trained, but unarmed, Soldiers in the space of a few minutes. Any time that you have a large concentration of people who are known to be disarmed, you have a tempting target. There is a reason that these shooters don't go to shoot up the police station, the NRA headquarters, gun shops or the local courthouse, which is that the odds of encountering an armed victim are too great. If we are going to have gun-free schools, then we have to surround them with with barriers to attack. That means doors that cannot be forced, windows that cannot be shot out and armed responders on the premises (although not the teachers, at least not as a group).